Record cold snap continues | Perth Now

WA'S big chill is continuing with Perth marking a record-breaking 12 consecutive nights of temperatures below 5C, according to the WA Bureau of Meteorology.

Temperatures dipped to a wintry 0.3C in the city overnight, with Jandakot recording a freezing minus -1.4C at 5.22am.

The bureau says it is the longest cold snap on record, beating a July 1997 stretch of nine straight nights of 5C or below.

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